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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe we should build from git now?


Launchpad's git support is incomplete (you can host git repos, and you
can build recipes from git repos, but you can't auto-mirror git repos
from other hosts).

Upon further inspection, the importer seems to be in a bad way indeed:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/266425695/rbose-vcs-imports-emacs-trunk.log

That looks to me like some serious bit-rot and not something that
rbose is going to have the power to fix (eg this requires code fixes
directly in launchpad, and I doubt anybody will care to do it seeing
as bzr is dead).

So as a stop-gap until launchpad supports mirroring git repos, I've
created a little script that just sort of force-imports git and
commits it to bzr. It doesn't preserve the commit history but you
don't need that for the daily package build anyway. Here's the script:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cupstream2distro-maintainers/bileto/trunk/view/head:/scripts/import.sh

And if all goes well, in a few hours (scheduled for 1AM UTC) you
should see the branch appear here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~ci-train-bot/emacs/imported

At which point I'll trigger new builds of the recipe based on that and
things should go back to their daily selves.

-- 
robru